15 Times Celebrities Continued Living Their Lives While Pregnant

When fans get excited about a celebrity's pregnancy, it's understandable. Someone you love is literally creating a human life! Look at Beyoncé—earlier this year, she set the Internet on fire when she revealed she's expecting twins. But lately a pregnancy announcement also comes with a weird sense of idolization.

Take, for example, Serena Williams, who recently shared that she was 20 weeks along. Suddenly all people could talk about was the fact that she won the Australian Open while pregnant. It was like the world couldn't believe a woman could win the Grand Slam title and carry a child. The news even spawned tweets like: “Serena Williams won a grand slam while she was pregnant so every man should probably shut up about everything forever.”

Similarly people seem to be having a hard time getting over the fact that Gal Gadot filmed an action movie at five months pregnant. The reaction is as though Gal Gadot is actually Wonder Woman, but she's just doing her job...and also pregnant.

We shouldn’t dismiss the amount of work that goes into winning a tennis championship or filming a blockbuster movie or, you know, growing a human inside you, but it's important to note that pregnancy doesn’t mean a woman is suddenlytransformed into a helpless creature. (As a pregnant woman myself, I can guarantee there's a whole lot more to these nine months than putting my feet up.) With that in mind, here are some other things famous pregnant women did while they continued on with their everyday lives—no superhero costume needed.